Swimming-suit.



D. DYRENFORTH (NOW BY MARRIAGE D. D. AURACHER). SWIMMING SUIT. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 29, 1912.

1,77,687, v Patented Nov. 4, 1913.

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D. DYRENPORTH (NOW BY MARRIAGE D. D. AURAUHER).

SWIMMING SUIT. Y APPLICATION FILED NOV. 29, 1912.

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Patented Nov. 4, 1913.

UNITED STA ES PATENT OFFICE.

DOROTHY DYRENFORTH, (NOW BY MARRIAGE IJOROEIIIHIYJ). AURACHER,) OF OAK PARK,

ILLINOIS.

SWIMMING-SUIT.

Application filed November 2% 1912. Serial No. 734,030.

I To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DOROTHY DYREN- FORTH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oak Park, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Swimming-Suits, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in swimming-suits for womens wear; and

my primary object is to provide as a part of such a suit a bust-supporter, or brassiere, by a construction of the suit whereby it may be made, preferably by weaving or knitting, with the jacket-portion, the bustthe wearer, of a back 5 havin a rear collarportion 6. The bib 9, which forms the upper part of the jacket-front, has its edges concaved, as represented at 10 in Fi 2, to fit about the front parts of the wearer s arms near the shoulders and terminate in flaps 11, at the ends of a concave front collar-section 12, to encircle with the rear collar-section 6 the neck of the wearer when the bib is raised, in which position it may be fastened by button-holes 13 in its flaps to'buttons 14 on the tops of the wearers shoulders. The skirt15 is formed as a continuation of the jacket, from the hip-line, at 16, of which extend the trunks 17.

The salient feature of my improvement is the bust-supporter 18 as an integral part of the one-piece garment. It consists of two chest-sections l9 and 20, buttoning at their meeting-edges and extending thereto, re-

spectively, from between the ends of the collar-section 6 and below the base or folding corners of the bib 10, thus from the opposite sides of the jacket; and, the sleeves 21 of the garment, if provided at all, are formed on the sections 19 and 20 and the back5 of the jacket.

The described construction enables the swimming-suit to be formed in one piece, of silk, wool, cotton, or other suitable material, by knitting or weaving. The bust-supporter 18, as an integral part of the garment extending from the wearers shoulders and covering the chest and bust, besides propping the latter, leaves the arms free and unencumbered in their movements for swimming, and it extends across the wearers breast in a manner rendering it practically independent of the jacket and the strains upon it in swimi'ning, notwithstanding its integral formation therewith.

I realize that considerable variation is possible in the details of construction herein shown and described,'and I do not intend by illustrating a single, specific or preferred form to limit my invention thereto, my intention being in the following claims to claim protection upon all the novelty there may be in my improved swimming-suit as broadly as the state of the art will permit.

\Vhat I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A one-piece swimming-suit comprising a jacket with trunks, a bust-supporter on the jacket and permanently connected therewith from the shoulders to a substantial distance below the arm pits, and a part forming a portion of the jacket for covering said supporter and constituting the unbroken closure for the upper portion of the suit.

2'. A one-piece swimming-suit comprising a skirted jacket with trunks in the skirt, a bust-supporter formed of chest-sections extending-from the sides of the jacket to meet between them and provided with means for fastening the sections together where they meet, and a bib forming a part of the jacket, folding downwardly to open it and upwardly for covering said supporter and adapted to be fastened to the sho'ulder-po'rtions -of the jacket.

DOROTHY DYRENFORTI-I.

In presence of-- L. HEISLAR, J. SANDERMAN.

Patented Nov. 4., 1913. 

